Stieglitz recorded the frenzied building boom that transformed New York in the Great Depression
Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.
Amerika: Traum und Depression, 1920/40. Exh.cat.
In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears Lenox Avenue, a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice.
I find it fascinating that this is right at the beginning of the Great Depression
Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression.
birth to a son, Milton Sprague Stearns Jr., in 1923, she suffered a postpartum depression
As the Depression grew worse, though, and as numerous other American painters and
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a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and extended until the Great Depression
Wyeth Fellow, 1997–1999 „Racial Art“ and African-American Artists in the Early Depression
